help,,, i suck! I want some music on the website,,, just some light folk type or native type drumming in the back ground of the site,,,, problem is i am too frikkin lazy to go n search out all these bloody horrible popup filled places,,, anyone know where i can find some decent clm music for the site? I think it has to be midi or wav files or i can stick a radio box in there.... ppl like me should not be allowed to build websites
dilligaf: Hey, while music can be a nice thing to have in the site, you might want to reconsider. I've been making websites since I was 11, and I've noticed that every time I put music on one, people complain about it. This is usually because, many people actually listen to their own music when they are surfing the Internet. If they go to your page, and then your music starts playing, the result is a lot of crappy-sounding noise, and they get mad at whatever website was playing the music. I know that whenever I'm playing some System of a Down and I go to their website to listen to their lyrics, and their music starts playing, I think "damn, these guys need to hire someone to better design their site!" A good thing to do is to let the user turn the music on. You should put the music on your site, but put it to "stop" and then add a control or a button that they can use to play it. That way, they can still listen to your music, but they can also turn it off, or they can turn off their own music first. Cheers and good HTML, Hikaru P.S. Someone suggested to use the <embed> tag earlier. But, the <embed> tag is deprecated; that means, the guys in charge of HTML (the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C) said that, you shouldn't use the <embed> tag anymore, and instead you shoudl use the <object> tag. More details can be found here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp That can help you use the <object> tag correctly. Good luck!
I'm with the above poster here. I've designed many web sites over the years as a hobby. Placing music onto a web site is a piece of cake and it sounds like a good idea at first. But don't you just hate it when you surf and come across a web site where it suddenly starts blasting out a naff tune, the worse ones are those mono- tone ones like a really cheap pocket piano tune thingy. I use http://www.flashkit.com/loops/ however you need to know how to use Macromedia flash to put them onto a web site, you can pre-load a whole song or noise for people still on dial-up, you can also mix sounds into others, make sounds play out of one speaker then flip over to the other in stereo, or make it mono, increase or decrease in volume gradually as the web site loads and you are able to compress the WAV file without loss of quality, etc. But playing tunes (songs) on a web site annoys me so I keep it simple with the odd mouse noise click or a brief page load sound. But if you must have a song on your site, it's best to have a STOP/PAUSE/PLAY button, the worse sites are the ones where you are unable to disable the sound, imo. Hope that helps
I've gotten that too Dilly. It's okay for a FAN site as long as it isn't .wav format. Those may download to the user faster, but they suck up your hosting space! But! If its either you or Hilly playing the tunes, I'd say GO for it!
roflmao,,, then it would not be called tunes or music matt, would be SHIT ! n for the time bein it is in there ,,, am working on the dang site still,,,, well hell that doesnt ever end....and will have atleast temporary have a stop start button ,,,, got a mate that has a bloody jukebox on his site,,,, which is kinda kewl but i think that one is wayyyyyyyyy over my head n time allowance.... hikky,,, i see yer from rachacha.....my home town or nearest city to home town.... sorry bout ya luck
Not from there, but going to college there. Yeah. I left the city of Dis only to find myself still in Hell. =\ Maybe next time I'll go somewhere warm. Like Hawaii or something.
I've got Streaming Internet broadcast Radio on mine. Small amount of code, but a Time investment for sure.
Thank you HZ for mentioning what needs to be mentioned. Think about your visiters bandwidth when selecting audio format, .wav is very demanding in this. About Flash, oh where can I start, Flash is becoming too closely associated with ads imo. Some ppl have flashblock for a reason, keep in mind that the flash media will not load up on browsers with this extension until (and if) the visiter specifically selects it. Nop, I whole-heartedly embrace the KISS theory, 'keep it simple stupid' or i go elsewhere (or at least turn off the offending stuff if possible).
If I was going to put a high quality music format on my website, I would definitely find a way to convert whatever I had into an OGM format. <3 Ogg Vorbis.
Best part is, if you use a Java applet and you use a module that can play the OGM format, you don't even have to waste time dealing with <object> tags and Windows Media Player to download the right codecs. It won't matter if their computer isn't set up to play OGM, it will work regardless. OR you could write your own OGM decoder. If you were 1337.
